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• Ethnicity, identity, Islam and Han settler colonialism, with a focus on Xinjiang, China (Dr Smith Finley)
• Film, media and celebrity status (Prof Yu)
• Gender Studies (Dr Smith Finley, Prof Yu)

French Studies

• Contemporary women's writing (Dr Henry-Tierney, Dr Robson)
• French cinema (Dr Leahy)
• French labour history, especially the role of women (Dr Salin)
• French and Francophone literature (Dr El Maïzi, Dr Scott)
• History and culture, French empire, 19th/20th century, decolonisation (Dr Marcus)
• Gender studies (Dr Henry-Tierney, Dr Robson)
• Language learning and teaching in higher education (Dr Salin)
• Medical and health history, especially in the 19th century (Dr Scott)
• Memory and heritage (Dr Gilbert)
• Performance, dance, and music, especially in the 19th century (Dr Scott)
• Postcolonial cultures (Dr El Maïzi, Dr Gilbert, Dr Marcus)
• Feminist translation (Dr Henry-Tierney)
• Trauma and culture (Dr Gilbert, Dr Robson)
• Urban humanities: French urban cultures of the modern and contemporary period (Dr Jein)
• Visual culture (Dr Jein, Dr Scott) 

Linguistics

• Anthropological and ethnographic linguistics (Dr Hall)
• History of French and Anglo-Norman (Dr Hall)
• Phonetics and phonology (Dr Hall) 
• Sociolinguistics, language variation, language change (Dr Hall)
• Syntax (Prof MacKenzie) 

• Literature, film, culture, and society in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the 20th and 21st centuries (Dr Ludden, Dr McClelland)
• Literary Multilingualism (Dr McClelland) 
• Gender and the body in literature (Dr Ludden)
• Space and environment in literature (Dr McClelland)
• German-language poetry in the 20th and 21st centuries (Dr Ludden)
• Cultural and critical theory (Dr McClelland, Dr Ludden)
• German-speaking theatre and performance studies (Dr McClelland)
• Morphology and morphosyntax of German and Dutch (Dr Fehringer)

• Film and animation (Dr Yoshioka)
• Literature, Gender studies, 1980s Japan (Dr Hansen) 
• Popular culture, media and representation (Dr Hansen, Dr Yoshioka)

• Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American cultural history and popular culture (Dr Catalá-Carrasco, Dr Morgan, Dr Fehimović, Dr Beleza, Dr Page)
• Historical and contemporary discourses of race and identity in Latin America (Dr Morgan, Dr Fehimović, Dr Beleza, Prof Hentschke, Dr Borea)
• Luso-Afro-Brazilian literature and film (Dr Beleza)
• History of education in 19th and 20th century Latin America (Prof Hentschke)
• Youth cultures and social movements, music and politics (Dr Beleza)
• 20th and 21st century Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American literature (Dr Catalá-Carrasco, Dr Beleza)
• Spanish and Latin American graphic narrative, intermediality and contemporary cultural production (Dr Catalá-Carrasco)
• Political, social, and intellectual history of Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially Brazil and the Southern Cone (Prof Hentschke)
• Language endangerment and revitalisation in Latin America, language policy and planning in Latin America and Spain (Josep Cru)
• Diachronic Spanish syntax, Old Spanish, language change, and quantitative historical linguistics (Prof Mackenzie)
• Catalan nationalism (Dr Catalá-Carrasco)
• Film, literature and popular culture of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its diasporas (Dr Fehimović)
• Environmental humanities (Dr Beleza, Dr Fehimović)
• Latin American art, cultural policies, museums and material culture (Dr Borea)
• Indigenous cultures, Amazon and Andes (Dr Borea)
• Territory, place-making and cities in Latin America (Dr Borea, Dr Morgan, Dr Page)
• Contemporary Catalan culture (Dr Arnold)
• Latin American feminisms and reproductive justice (Dr Page)
• Aesthetics, politics and authoritarianism, particularly in the Southern Cone (Dr Page)
• Post-authoritarian cultures of memory and democracy (Dr Page, Dr Catalá-Carrasco)
• Latin American theatre, film and performance (Dr Page) 

• Interpreting (Dr Chen, Dr Du, Dr Jin)
• Psycholinguistics of interpreting and translating (Dr Jin, Dr Lin)
• Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis in translation and interpreting (Dr Du, Dr Hall)
• Linguistic diversity and social justice (Dr Du)
• Translation and gender studies (Dr Henry-Tierney)
• Translating literature (Dr Arnold, Dr Henry-Tierney, Dr Lin)
• Translation and culture (Dr Arnold, Dr Chen, Dr El Maizi, Dr Lin, Dr Penet, Dr Robertson)
• Translation and ethics, ideology, and power (Dr Arnold, Dr Lin, Dr Penet)
• Translation and emotions/wellbeing (Dr Penet)
• Translation and reception (Dr Arnold)
• Translation products, processes and strategies (Dr Chen, Dr Jin, Dr Lin, Dr Penet, Dr Robertson)
• Institutional translation (Dr Penet)
• Translator and interpreter training and assessment (Dr Cacheiro Quintas, Dr Chen, Dr Penet)
• Reflective/autonomous learning and educational psychology (Dr Chen)
• Audiovisual translation studies (Dr Chen, Dr Henry-Tierney, Dr Robertson)
• Game translation (Dr Chen, Dr Robertson)
• Translation and localisation of digital products (Dr Robertson)
• Translation technology and translator agency (Dr Cacheiro Quintas, Dr Penet, Dr Robertson)
• Legal translation and legal and medical interpreting (Dr Du)
• Migration and multilingualism (Dr Du)
• Respeaking or translation voice to text (Dr Cacheiro Quintas)

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